[2] Shannon's chair operates the Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science and Technology (WWEST) program to promote equity, diversity and inclusion in STEM.

[3][4] Shannon received her B.Sc., Electrical Engineering with the Computer Option from the University of New Brunswick in 1999 (Canada).

Her PhD research focused on developing tools, architectures and methodologies that help reduce the design time of embedded systems, particularly those implemented using FPGAs.

[6][7] Her publications include "Odin II - An Open-Source Verilog HDL Synthesis Tool for CAD Research",[8] "FUSE: Front-End User Framework for O/S Abstraction of Hardware Accelerators",[9] and "Using reconfigurability to achieve real-time profiling for hardware/software codesign".

[10] Additionally, she has published articles such as "TAIGA: A new RISC-V soft-processor framework enabling high performance CPU architectural features",[11] and "Performance and scalability of Fourier domain optical coherence tomography acceleration using graphics processing units".